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Cell phone extension using wireless piconet

  • US 8,731,569 B2
  • Filed: 03/14/2013
  • Issued: 05/20/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A cellular telephone, comprising:

  • a cellular telephone module;

    a piconet front end; and

    a cordless telephone gateway module configured to provide a cellular-telephone-to-piconet-network gateway role, said cordless telephone gateway module being in communication with said cellular telephone module and with said piconet front end;

    wherein said cordless telephone gateway module is configured, in the cellular-telephone-to-piconet-network gateway role, to allow an incoming call to said cellular telephone to be automatically answered over a piconet network by a remote telephone piconet device instead of by said cellular telephone and to selectively audibly ring said remote telephone piconet device based on incoming call-related information.

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